If you ever want to serve a glass of sherry wine to a friend, explain what it is before, otherwise your friend will be very confused! The Sherry wine has a strong and unusual personality, an unusual surprise!
The Jerez is a dry fortified wine, of medium or sweet sweetness, produced in the city of Jerez de La Fronteira, in southern Spain. Its base wine is a dry, neutral, low acidity white wine, produced from the Palomino grape. However, after a special aging process called Solera, it changes its color to amber or deep brown. The Solera system consists of constantly mixing newer wines with older wines.
There are different types of Jerez.
The Jerez Fino or Jerez manzanilla has a pale color, is dry and of medium body with an alcoholic content of 15%. The wine maintains its freshness in the aging process thanks to a layer of yeast called flor, which can only develop at this approximate level of alcohol (15%). They have citric, almond and baking notes (because of the yeasts). After bottling, these wines should be consumed as soon as possible, that is, the fresher the better.
The Jerez Pale Cream is a young Fino who has been sweetened with concentrated grape juice.
The Jerez Amontillado is elaborated from a Fino or a manzanilla, which adds more wine brandy to kill the flor and thus begin to oxidize. The amontillados have deeper amber color and flavors of dry fruits and are usually dry. Some of these wines are sweetened and, when they are, they have the term “Medium” on the label.
Xerez Oloroso is fortified after fermentation to an alcoholic strength of 18%. With this alcohol content, the flor will not develop and the oxidation would originate flavors of grains and animal notes (roasted dried fruit, coffee, meat). These wines have a deep brown color, are usually dry, but some are sweetened before bottling, appearing on their label “Cream”.
The Pedro Ximenez is a very sweet sherry wine, prepared from Pedro Ximenez sun-dried grapes. They are almost black in color and have intense flavors of dried fruit.
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